Posted on October 17, 2007 by Mark Jakubik
There is a very interesting article in this week’s National Law Journal, posted below, that discusses the increasing use that many lawyers are making of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook as sources of information about their clients and adversaries. The takeaway is, be very, very careful about what you post online, [...]
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Posted on September 19, 2007 by Mark Jakubik
Fellow blogger Diana Skaggs, of the Divorce Law Journal blog, alerted me to an article from this weekend’s New York Times, which appears below:
A word of extreme caution is in order here. I have published articles here and here and here previously about how many of the techniques mentioned in this article violate state and [...]
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Posted on April 5, 2007 by Mark Jakubik
This story from New York is both interesting and rather bizarre. Sort of reminiscent of one of my favorite movies, “The War of the Roses”:
Jury Says Feuding N.Y. Couple Cannot Divorce
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS; Published: March 29, 2007
NEW YORK (AP) — Feuding spouses who built a wall through their three-story row house because neither would [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2007 by Mark Jakubik
The Winter 2007 issue of Family Advocate (not yet available online), a publication of the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association is devoted to the subject of electronic discovery. The issue contains a wealth of information that ought to be of interest to ALL family law lawyers, as well as any lawyer that [...]
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